UPDATE, 30 April 2016:

The primaries are now nearing an end, and the frantic e-appeals are getting ever more Kafkaesque. Here are a few examples from DCCC.org (the worst offender):

“The Republicans outraised us by $3 million last month. Their enormous fundraising haul could help them keep a Republican Congress and keep trying to reverse all of the progress we’ve made that gives the middle class have a fighting chance.”

“We. Will. Fail.”

“…with just 11 hours left before tonight’s End of Month Fundraising Deadline, we are running WAY behind our goal.”

Every one of these panicked predictions of disaster carries the same message: “The ONLY thing that matters in an American election is HOW MUCH MONEY the party gets to spend on propaganda ads. The voters are going to be swayed by every assertion they hear on TV, and the only way to win is to make sure they hear OUR assertions more often and most recently.”

This is the party I PREFER?

That rumbling you hear is my gorge rising.